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The day I realized my house was breathing
Last Tuesday, after a solid week of rain in Spokane, I went to paint a bedroom and the old trim just would NOT take the primer, it kept beading up. My neighbor, a retired contractor, came over for a coffee and pointed at my basement dehumidifier, which had been off for months. He said 'Your house is full of damp air, kid, it's sweating through the walls.' I cranked that thing on for 48 hours and the difference was night and day. How often do you all check your indoor humidity levels, especially in older homes?
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wade_hall19d ago
That "house sweating" thing explains my weird wallpaper bubbles last spring.
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leotaylor19d ago
Oh man, I had the same thing... thought I had some kind of weird wall fungus for months. Turns out my house just cries in the spring.
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